mercury and air toxics standard News

EPA to hold public hearing in Chicago on national standard for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public hearing on May 24, 2011 on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing as many as ...

May 3, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to hold public hearing in Atlanta on national standard for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public hearing on May 26, 2011 on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing as many as ...

May 3, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to hold public hearing on national standard for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public hearing in Philadelphia on May 24, 2011 on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing ...

May 3, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to hold three public hearings on national standard for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold three public hearings in May on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing as many as ...

May 3, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

TODAY: EPA, American lung association to hold press conference to discuss mercury and air toxics standards

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will join American Lung Association President and CEO Charles D. Connor and American Academy of Pediatrics President O. Marion Burton, M.D., F.A.A.P. to discuss the agency’s mercury and air toxics standards - the first-ever national standards for mercury and other air toxics from coal-fired power plants. They will be ...

Mar. 16, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA issues first national standards for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollution like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide. The standards will slash emissions of these dangerous pollutants by relying on widely available, proven pollution ...

Dec. 21, 2011

By GLOBE SERIES

EPA issues first national standards for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollution like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide. The standards will slash emissions of these dangerous pollutants by relying on widely available, proven pollution controls that ...

Dec. 21, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA extends public comment on mercury and air toxics standards/extension will have no impact on timeline for finalizing standards

In response to requests from members of Congress and to encourage additional public comment, EPA today extended the timeline for public input by 30 days on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards, an extension that will not alter the timeline for issuing the final standards in November 2011. “EPA will put these long-overdue standards in effect in November, as planned. In our effort ...

Jun. 21, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Most Coal Plants Have Emissions Controls Needed to Meet Mercury Limits, EIA Reports

Seventy percent of coal-fired power plants have the necessary pollution control equipment to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency mercury and air toxics standards, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Another 6 percent are planning to install pollution controls, and 8 percent are planning to close rather than invest in the expensive equipment, the EIA said in a ...

Apr. 1, 2014

By Bloomberg BNA

EPA, state of Colorado join children’s hospital to highlight benefits of new mercury and air toxics standards for power plants

At a ceremony today at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colo., representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Trout Unlimited, and ADA Environmental Solutions, Inc. to highlight the benefits of EPA’s newly issued Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect ...

Jan. 10, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Updates Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for New Power Plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued updates to pollution limits for new power plants under the mercury and air toxics standards, based on new information and analysis that became available to the agency after the rule was finalized. The updates are largely technical in nature and will have no impact on the sensible, achievable and cost-effective standards already set for ...

Mar. 29, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Here’s what they’re saying about mercury and air toxics standards

Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and air toxics like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide. These new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards will slash emissions of these dangerous pollutants by relying on widely available, proven pollution controls that are already ...

Dec. 21, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

They’re still talking about historic mercury and air toxics standards

Yesterday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and air toxics like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide. These new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards will slash emissions of these dangerous pollutants by relying on widely available, proven pollution controls that are ...

Dec. 22, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

ICAC Releases Updated Regulatory Tracker, Spring 2020

ICAC has developed the Spring 2020 Regulatory Tracker: an up-to-date list of key EPA regulations that have had recent activity. Additionally, the tracker highlights opportunities for engagement and, when applicable, instances where ICAC has submitted comments, technical briefings or presentations. View the Regulatory Tracker Regulations Included in Spring 2020 Regulatory Tracker: Coal Ash ...

Apr. 15, 2020

By Institute of Clean Air Companies (ICAC)

EPA administrator Lisa Jackson to highlight asthma awareness on may 11 visit to children`s mercy hospital in Kansas city, Mo.

EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will visit Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo., on Wednesday, May 11, to highlight May as National Asthma Awareness Month. During her Kansas City visit, Administrator Jackson will share information with the public about EPA’s initiatives to bring awareness to the disease, and will formally recognize the newly established Center ...

May 9, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

TODAY: EPA chief travels to Atlanta to announce faith-based and neighborhood partnerships initiative

On Monday, April 18, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will travel to Atlanta to announce the formation of EPA’s Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (FBNP) Initiative. The Administrator, joined by Dr. Gerald Durley and other community leaders, will take part in a roundtable discussion Monday morning on the new initiative. Faith institutions and ...

Apr. 18, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Calgon Carbon Responds to U.S. Court of Appeal’s Ruling on Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Rule

Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE: CCC) (the Company) announced its satisfaction with today’s ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the Court) to leave MATS in effect while remanding it to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for further proceedings. In doing so, the Court noted that EPA has represented that it is on track to issue a final ...

Dec. 22, 2015

By Calgon Carbon Corporation

Business Leaders Support the Administration`s Finalization of Long-Overdue Mercury & Air Toxics Standards for Power Plants

Today a diverse group of business leaders representing over 125,000 businesses across the country sent the following letter to President Obama, thanking him for the timely finalization and implementation of EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants. The text of the letter reads as follows: "Dear President Obama, As leaders in the business community collectively ...

Dec. 21, 2011

By Ceres

Gradient Scientist Provides Congressional Testimony on Air Toxic Standards

Gradient scientist Julie E. Goodman was invited to testify before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power at a hearing entitled, "The American Energy Initiative: What EPA's Utility MACT Rule Will Cost U.S. Consumers." The focus of the hearing was the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS). The hearing was held February 8, 2012 in Washington, DC. Dr. Goodman ...

Feb. 8, 2012

By Gradient Corporation

EPA Withdraws Federal Plan and Approves Oklahoma’s Air Plan for Public Service of Oklahoma

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the approval of Oklahoma’s state clean-air plan to control regional haze from the Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) two coal-fired power plants at its Northeastern Station in Oologah, OK. The state’s plan is a result of the April 2012 agreement between EPA, Oklahoma and PSO to both reduce pollution and protect ...

Feb. 10, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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